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Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge (arstechnica.com)

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On Thursday, Montana health officials published an outbreak analysis of poisonings linked to the honeycombed fungi in March and April of last year. The outbreak sickened 51 people who ate at the same restaurant, sending four to the emergency department. Three were hospitalized and two died. Though the health officials didn't name the restaurant in their report, state and local health departments at the time identified it as Dave’s Sushi in Bozeman. The report is published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

The author of this article seems to be as ignorant as the chefs behind this incident.

Morels are known to be toxic until cooked. I’m surprised there was no explicit mention of this in the article.

In general, the boilerplate advice is to never consume raw mushrooms, even from species known to be edible, unless they are explicitly known to be edible raw. Button mushrooms are the only one I can think of. It’s likely other species are edible raw too, but it’s better not to gamble if it’s unproven.

People preparing or consuming wild foods should make sure to do the proper research. That is the only safe way to practice foraging. Very sad that people died because of this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Psilocybe cubensis is also edible raw but make sure not to eat the portion that was connexted to rhe substrate bc it probably has poop on it lmao

That may have been more than half a gram lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would still consider cubes poisonous. Although it won't kill anyone haha.

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